The tennis serve pronation is that key technique of the serve that separates advanced and effective serves from beginner serves.
It is one of the more challenging tennis techniques to learn because you often have to fight old muscle memory from serving with the forehand grip and doing the "waiter's serve".
These pronation drills need to be performed slowly at first so that you can be more aware of the racquet path in that critical part of the serve.
Starting with a slice serve and then pronating has been in my experience the most effective way to learn proper tennis serve technique.
Players put in many hours to study and perfect correct technique, but there's an underlying thread that allows your kinetics to be effective. We layer on concepts involving coordination to master the art of rhythm.
In today's video you'll learn how to find the right amount of relaxation and firmness in your strokes as well as how to find the right amount of rotation and linear extension in your strokes.
While at first glance these two dilemmas seem to be quite different, you will see that they are very much compatible.
The reason why we have to look into these extremes is because you could be too loose or too tense when hitting your groundstrokes in tennis.
You could also be over-rotating and swinging too much across the ball or you could be pushing the ball too much in a straight line without much body rotation.
In order for our tennis forehands & backhands to work well - meaning we get power AND accuracy, we need to find the right combination between relaxation & firmness and between rotation & linear extension.
Serve myths debunked: Former Top 100 ATP Pro, Jeff Salzenstein, is exposing 3 common myths that could be crippling your serve potential. Most players make at least 1 of these 3 mistakes... Do you?
Do you know what the key components that impact the racquet drop during swing phase of your serve are?
Wouldn't you like to discover exactly what is holding back your racquet drop and stopping you from unleashing the full potential of your serve?
If so, then you’re gonna love this video where I break down the precise spots where most players go wrong with their racquet drop.
When you receive an easy short ball in tennis, whether that's on a groundstroke, a volley or even a smash, you definitely want to hit it with power.
And yet, you make too many errors.How can you minimize these mistakes?
The key lies in accelerating your racquet gradually.
Most players accelerate their racquet very suddenly and in the process become tight and muscle the ball as we like to say.
You need to learn to accelerate the racquet gradually as only then can you avoid tensing up and losing control of your shots.
This method applies to all strokes including the serve even though it's a stroke you would use on easy balls, but the principle of generating effortless power with control is the same.
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A video lesson explaining the proper footwork for the return of serve.
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The range of movement in your shoulder will have a direct relationship with the fluency and speed of your serve and many other shots in tennis. Tight shoulders lead to tight backs and necks, which will effect performance, possible injury and lower enjoyment of the sport.
On your forehand should your hitting arm be straight or bent at point of contact? Find out this and a get a few more tips on the forehand contact point in today's lesson with Brady.
In this tennis serve tip OTI Instructor Nadim Naser shows you a key drill that will help you master one of the most important elements of a powerful serve.
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